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2. Consumer Interest in Food Systems Topics: Implications for Educators
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Howard, Phil (author) and Perez, Jan (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007-08
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: C26212
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 45(4)
- Notes:
- Online access; 7 p.
3. Has Extension changed to match Australia's dynamic forestry landscape?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Race, Digby (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Published:
- Australia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 189 Document Number: D01886
- Journal Title:
- Rural Society Journal
- Journal Title Details:
- 12(2) : 148-159
4. Human factors in advisory work
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sanders, C. (author)
- Format:
- Article
- Publication Date:
- 1956
- Published:
- International: H. Veenman & Zonen, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes14b Document Number: C12582
- Notes:
- Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Pages 46-54 in J.M.A. Penders (ed.), Methods and program planning in rural extension. 324 p.
5. Interpreting and reinterpreting agri-environmental policy: communication, trust and knowledge in the implementation process
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Juntti, M. (author) and Potter, C. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2002-07
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26516
- Journal Title:
- Sociologia Ruralis
- Journal Title Details:
- 42(3) : 215-232
6. Precision farming information sources used by cotton farmers and implications for extension
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Larson, James A. (author), Roberts, Roland K. (author), English, Burton C. (author), Martin, Steven W. (author), Velandia, Margarita (author), Lambert, Dayton M. (author), and Jenkins, Amanda (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2010-10
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 179 Document Number: C35994
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 48(5) : 5RIB6
- Notes:
- Via online. 7 pages.
7. Reorienting Priorities of Extension and Advisory Services in India during and Post COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Chander, Mahesh (author) and Rathod, Prakashkumar (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-07-01
- Published:
- India: Indian Journal of Extension Education
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 294 Document Number: D12489
- Journal Title:
- Indian Journal of Extension Education
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 56 (3)
- Notes:
- Extension and Advisory Services (EAS) are delivered by millions of extension professionals representing the public, private and civil society located across the globe and have been helping in addressing farmers’ needs over the years, including during COVID-19 pandemic situation. However, public sector has been a major agency dealing with EAS in India and is facing several challenges and constraints to fulfil the demands of farmers on timely basis. The challenge today is to change the organizational culture to incorporate innovation as a core value and to institutionalize the emerging paradigms. Further, different strategies and measures need to be taken to ensure timely and quality EAS by reorienting extension priorities in such emergency situations and later too. In this context, an effort to review the extension mechanism across India and also has focused on reorienting extension priorities post COVID-19 scenario. The study has highlighted on strengthening extension and feedback mechanism, improving research-extension linkages, capacity building, public-private partnership (PPP), developing infrastructure, mass media support and use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) etc. to improve the efficiency as the time demands. The paper concludes that reorienting extension priorities is very essential with a vast network of various stakeholders by adapting effective approaches like utilization of social media, human resource development, PPP, farmer groups etc. during and post pandemic scenario. Further, empirical efforts are also needed to develop reliable, location-specific, participatory, gender-sensitive and inexpensive extension methodologies and materials to meet the demands during such crisis. Further, developing countries like India have to invest in terms of various resources like financial, human resource etc. for promoting higher productivity and sustainability through EAS.
8. Sources and channels of information used by educational program clients
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Israel, Glenn D. (author) and Wilson, Kristen M. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2006
- Published:
- USA: Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE).
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26488
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Applied Communications
- Journal Title Details:
- 90(4) : 55-78
9. The Influence of budget allocation to implement the policy of extension and advisory services in South Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lukhalo, T. (author) and Zwane, E.M. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-10-20
- Published:
- South Africa: South African Society for Agricultural Extension
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12723
- Journal Title:
- South African Journal of Agricultural Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 50, N.1
- Notes:
- 19 pages, Extension support is viewed as an enabler of food security. However, the literature reveals that extension within the public sector in South Africa is not yet geared to satisfy the needs of resource-poor smallholder producers to break away from poverty and food insecurity. This paper is aimed at reviewing budget allocation and public expenditure on agricultural extension support services to provide evidence-based recommendations to inform the implementation of the national policy on extension and advisory services. The study was conducted using budget allocation and expenditure data collected through a survey questionnaire directed at nine provincial departments of agriculture. The problem investigated was to establish whether the budget allocated to provincial extension services would be sufficient to implement the extension policy. Data analysis employed descriptive statistics including t-tests of differences in means. The study has delivered several findings: a). The budget execution rates were high for both the extension practitioners and the farmer programmes, with budget execution for farmer programmes being better than that for extension practitioners. b). The budget trends indicate an efficient system of budget execution for the benefit of the farmers. c). There were statistically significant differences between mean budget allocation for extension practitioners and farmer programmes. d). It was further found that the differences between the mean expenditure on extension practitioners and mean expenditure on farmer programmes were statistically significant. e). Consistent with budget allocation, mean expenditure on farmer programmes was higher than mean expenditure on extension practitioners leading to the conclusion that farmer programmes spent significantly higher than extension practitioners in the five financial years. f). On the other hand, it was found that the cost of implementing the newly developed national policy on extension and advisory services was found to be greater than the current budget allocation. The paper concluded that the budget allocation was insufficient, yet farmers received value for money.
10. The Influence of budget allocation to implement the policy of extension and advisory services in South Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lukhalo, T. (author) and Zwane, E.M. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-10-20
- Published:
- South Africa: South African Society for Agricultural Extension
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12725
- Journal Title:
- South African Journal of Agricultural Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 50, N. 1
- Notes:
- 19 pages, Extension support is viewed as an enabler of food security. However, the literature reveals that extension within the public sector in South Africa is not yet geared to satisfy the needs of resource-poor smallholder producers to break away from poverty and food insecurity. This paper is aimed at reviewing budget allocation and public expenditure on agricultural extension support services to provide evidence-based recommendations to inform the implementation of the national policy on extension and advisory services. The study was conducted using budget allocation and expenditure data collected through a survey questionnaire directed at nine provincial departments of agriculture. The problem investigated was to establish whether the budget allocated to provincial extension services would be sufficient to implement the extension policy. Data analysis employed descriptive statistics including t-tests of differences in means. The study has delivered several findings: a). The budget execution rates were high for both the extension practitioners and the farmer programmes, with budget execution for farmer programmes being better than that for extension practitioners. b). The budget trends indicate an efficient system of budget execution for the benefit of the farmers. c). There were statistically significant differences between mean budget allocation for extension practitioners and farmer programmes. d). It was further found that the differences between the mean expenditure on extension practitioners and mean expenditure on farmer programmes were statistically significant. e). Consistent with budget allocation, mean expenditure on farmer programmes was higher than mean expenditure on extension practitioners leading to the conclusion that farmer programmes spent significantly higher than extension practitioners in the five financial years. f). On the other hand, it was found that the cost of implementing the newly developed national policy on extension and advisory services was found to be greater than the current budget allocation. The paper concluded that the budget allocation was insufficient, yet farmers received value for money.